哥伦布航行至遥远的西方，去寻找一个新大陆。

Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 哥伦布 Gēlúnbù
  1. Cristóbal Colón or Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
  2. Columbus, capital of Ohio
2 航行 hángxíng
  1. to sail
  2. to fly
  3. to navigate
=3 至 zhì
  1. to arrive
  2. most
  3. to
  4. until
=3 至 dié only used in 單至／单至
4 遥远 yáoyuǎn distant; remote
=5 的 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs
=5 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=5 的 dí really and truly
=5 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=6 西方 Xīfāng
  1. the West
  2. the Occident
  3. Western countries
=6 西方 xīfāng
  1. (Buddhism) Alternative name for 西天 (xītiān, “Western Paradise”).
  2. Alternative name for 西天 (xītiān, “Western Paradise”).
  3. the Western world; the West
  4. west
7 去 qù
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
8 寻找 xúnzhǎo to seek; to look for
=9 一个 yīge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=9 一个 yīgè
  1. Combination of the numeral 一 (“one”) and the generic classifier 個／个: a; an; one
  2. same
=10 新大陆 xīndàlù
  1. the New World
  2. the Americas as opposed to the Old World 旧大陆 jiùdàlù or Eurasia
=10 新大陆 Xīndàlù
  1. (figurative) discovery of a new field, new branch
  2. New World, usually the Americas
  3. discovery of a new field, new branch